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Watching Christina P. in her new Netflix special Mother Inferior go from talking about boobs vs. mom tits, to her episiotomy, to "Blowjob Season" early in a relationship, I found myself thinking of Ali Wong and her hysterical Netflix special Baby Cobra. https://youtu.be/Vzk-bj5bRNs I then rewatched Baby Cobra and realized that they're totally different. Christina P. is aggressively …

If you hadn't seen yet, I released an eBook version of my short story "Cry 'Bout A Nickel." I blogged an excerpt earlier; go here to download it. It's a two-step download process; please let me know if it's too cumbersome for people who don't know me to bother. Again, download "Cry 'Bout A Nickel" on …

Neither of the bartenders at my go-to downtown bar knew who Andrew W.K. was. I tried to explain to Nicole, the younger bartender, "He's the party guy. You know, the 'Party Hard' guy? 'It's time to party?' 'When it's time to party we will always party hard?'" My friend Candy saved me - she's also …

It you haven't gone to a lot of dance clubs lately, you're fortunate. DJs are the new rock stars, and I hope the rock stars were never this douchey, but Spinal Tap tells us otherwise. I guess we get what we deserve ... I dislike most Top 40 music. I don't really like Kanye West or Taylor …

I've been obsessing over the film version of "IT" that came out recently, and have watched with delight as it has shattered box-office expectations to become a star performer for the year and the highest-grossing horror film of all time. It has a ways to go before it outgrosses The Exorcist (adjusted for inflation) but I …

BoJack Horseman is my kind of show. On a regular basis it is raunchy, hysterical, ridiculous, dramatically heavy, and devastatingly sad. If this sounds like a strange description of a cartoon about a talking horse trying to revive his acting career in a parallel Hollywood where humans and anthropomorphized animals coexist ("Hollywoo"), after being typecast …

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. I stole that line from Aaron Sorkin and one of his "West Wing" scripts, like I pilfer so much of my sense of humor. I always wanted to make people laugh. So much of whether or not someone laughs at your jokes depends …

"Suicide is selfish." "Suicide is cowardly." I hope no one reading this has ever expressed one of those two sadly common viewpoints, but if you have, you fucked with the wrong guy because I'm flipping that table right on top of you. Strap in, kids, this is gonna be a rant. It's on my mind …

INT: STATE POLICE HEADQUARTERS - CHAD'S OFFICE - DAY The massive, crumbling BOOK that was found in the Dunwich house raid is spread on the desk. Police analyst CHAD, 20s or 30s, pudgy and frumpily dressed, sits behind the desk, addressing FBI SPECIAL AGENT FRANCES "FRANKIE" MORGAN. A small POMERANIAN DOG named Pablo yips around Chad's …

At 17 I learned to partner-dance, and it was spectacular. It was 1998, the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies were popular for some reason, and I was friends with a lot of Mormons, so naturally I needed to learn to swing dance. As happens more often you would think, our high school lunch-club of nerds included one …